Earlier this week in the Washington DC suburb of Gaithersburg, a plane crash took the lives of six people. Three of the accident victims were on board the plane, and three others were in a home that the plane crashed into. According to a report by one local news source,…
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Serious Brain Injury Lawsuit Follows Private Jet Crash
An Oklahoma man who was a passenger in a private jet with his son-in-law last March, suffered serious brain injuries when the plane attempted an emergency landing, which also killed the plane’s two pilots. The men subsequently filed a lawsuit seeking compensation for their injuries. The two men sued the…
Two Lawsuits Filed Over Las Vegas Tour Helicopter Crash
Families of the victims killed in a tragic helicopter crash near Las Vegas, Nevada have filed two lawsuits against the company that operated the sightseeing craft. The crash occurred the afternoon of December 7, 2011 in the Lake Mead Recreational Area near the Hoover Dam, about twelve miles east of…
Family Awarded $17 Million from Federal Government for Fatal Military Jet Crash
A judge awarded $17.845 million to a family in a negligence lawsuit against the federal government over a military jet crash that killed four people. A series of mechanical failures and human errors caused the U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet jet to crash into the family’s University City home in…
Emergency Beacon on Aircraft Transporting Former Senator Ted Stevens Did Not Emit Signal When Plane Crashed
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the state-of-the-art emergency beacon aboard the plane carrying former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens did not go off as it should have when the tragic aviation accident happened on Monday afternoon. Rescue efforts did not begin until early that evening and survivors were forced…
NTSB Wants Tougher Rules Imposed on Emergency Medical Helicopter Operators
In an attempt to improve safety and decrease the number of emergency medical hospital accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board is calling on the federal government to come up with tougher rules that emergency helicopter operators would need to abide by. Recommendations include requiring flight data recorders, night-vision systems, and…